GENERAL
AWARENESS
1.
Union government on 23 June 2015 promised to inject about ........ into
state owned banks in 2015-16?
1) $ 3 billion 2) $ 3.5 billion 3) $ 1.5 billion 4) $ 1 billion 5) $ 4 billion
2. RBI has extended the date to exchange pre- 2005 bank notes till...
1) August 1st 2015 2) July 31st 2015 3) December 31st 2015 4) January 31st 2016 5) June 30th 2016
3. The Lok Sabha on 13 May cleared the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, 2015. It provides that cases of bouncing of cheques can be filed only in a court in whose jurisdiction the .....
1) drawer bank head office lies. 2) bank branch of the Drawer (person who issues the cheque) lies.
3) all cases transferred to Mumbai, as RBI has headquarters there. 4) payee bank's headquarters lies.
5) bank branch of the payee (person who receives the cheque) lies.
4. Since 2010, which financial regulator has been conducting Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) on a quarterly basis to gauge economic conditions and employment prospects?
1) SEBI 2) NABARD 3) CRISIL 4) RBI 5) IBPS
5. White label operator, Tata Communications Payment Solutions partnered with ......, a payment technology provider, to set up more ATM services in rural unbanked regions.
1) Oxygen 2) Vodafone 3) FINO PayTech 4) FARGO 5) None
6. RBI on 9 June 2015 said Indian corporate eligible to raise ECB are permitted to issue Rupee linked bonds overseas. ECB stands for ........
1) End Commercial Borrowings 2) External Core Borrowings 3) External Commercial Borrowings
4) External Commercial Benefits 5) None
7. Which bank issued first 'contactless' debit and credit cards, enabling its customers to make electronic payments by just waving the cards near the merchant terminal in lieu of dipping or swiping them in India?
1) SBI 2) Andhra Bank 3) ICICI 4) Allahabad Bank 5) Union Bank of India
8. The RBI has relaxed 2-factors authentication norms for contactless cards upto Rs.2,000 using NFC enabled credit and debit cards. Which of the following statements correct?
1) Customers can now make payments up to Rs.2,000 using NFC enabled credit and debit cards without punching the password at any retail outlet. 2) Beyond this transaction limit, the card has to be processed as a contact payment and authentication and PIN will be mandatory. 3) These rules will not be applicable to ATM transactions irrespective of transaction value and Card Not Present transactions (CNP). 4) NFC stands for Near Field Communication 5) All of above
9. Which of the following statement is wrong?
1) 'Tap and pay' refers to the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, enabling users to
make payments by waving or tapping the card near the contactless reader. 2) Customers may look for the 'contactless' logo on the card. 3) Contactless POS are different from Ordinary POS. 4) POS stands for Point of Sales Terminal. 5) None
10. First contactless card in the world issued by ...........
1) Barclays Bank in 2008 2) Standard Chartered Bank in 2009 3) ICICI Bank in 2015 4) UBI in 2014
5) None
11. Which is the first commercial bank in India initiated to have Television Banking (TVB), avail the banking information on TV screens. This enable TV viewers to access information of Bank's services and products, from the convince of their homes?
1) SBI 2) Corporation Bank 3) ICICI 4) Canara Bank 5) Tamilnadu Mercantile Bank Limited
12. New Development Bank (NDB) details given. Locate the wrong option.
1) The decision to set up this bank was taken at the 5th BRICS summit held in Durban, South Africa in 2013. 2) The bank headquarters is in Shanghai, China. 3) It is being seen as an alternative to the existing US-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund. 4) Its total out lay $ 1000 billion.
5) India is active partner in the NDB.
13. First head of the New Development Bank is......
1) K.V. Kamath 2) Jim Yong Kim 3) Christine Lagarde 4) Kaushik Basu 5) Sunil Sabharwal
14. India's first multi social payment app 'Ping Pay' launched by .....
1) HSBC 2) Corporation Bank 3) SBI 4) Axis Bank 5) ICICI
15. From 1 April 2015, the Insurance Australia Group Ltd (IAG) increase its stake in SBI General Insurance (SBIGI) from 26 percent to .......
1) 49% 2) 35% 3) 85% 4) 74% 5) 100%
16. The IAP (Indian Academy of Pediatrics) Health Phone programme details given. The correct option is .......
1) It is a public private partnership initiative that is supported by Vodafone India. 2) The programme use mobile phones in the country to educate over six million girls and women between 13 and 35 years of age. 3) Vodafone will send out approximately 300 million text messages to its subscribers every year to promote the scheme. 4) Three-year campaign is expected to benefit the health of 60 million children in India born by 2025. 5) All of above
17. Union Minister of Women and Child Development is .......
1) Maneka Sanjay Gandhi 2) Najma A. Heptulla 3) Jagat Prakash Nadda 4) Chaudhary Birender Singh 5) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
18. Who was selected for the 28th Moorti Devi Award for the year 2014 for his book Vyomkesh Darvesh?
1) Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade 2) Veerappa Moiley 3) Vishwanath Tripathi 4) Kedarnath Biswas
5) None of above
19. Moorti Devi Award declares by ......
1) K.K. Birla Foundation 2) TATA Foundation 3) Jnanpith Foundation 4) Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation 5) Melinda Gates Foundation
20. Which district was conferred with UN Public Service Award for 'Open Defecation Free' district in country on 26 June 2015?
1) Ernakulam in Kerala 2) Nellore in Andhra Pradesh 3) Nadia in West Bengal 4) Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir 5) Hissar in Haryana
21. UNESCO - Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2015 conferred on ...... a Syrian journalist and advocate. The award set up in 1997.
1) Mazen Darwish 2) Edward Snowden 3) Taslima Nasreen 4) Salman Rushdie 5) None
22. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) was established in ............
1) 1945 2) 1946 3) 1947 4) 1948 5) 1957
23. UNESCO headquarters is in ......
1) Paris 2) New York 3) Montreal 4) Geneva 5) Vienna
24. UNESCO chief .......
1) Irina Bokova 2) Anthony Lake 3) Raymond Benjiman 4) Margert Chan 5) Yukiya Amano
25. The 2015 National Geographic Bee Championship won by ......
1) Tine Valencic 2) Rahul Nagvekar 3) Sathwik Karnik 4) Akhil Rekulapelli 5) Karan Menon
26. UK Author Ali Smith won the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel......
1) How to be Both 2) A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing 3) May We Be Forgiven 4) The Song of Achilles
5) None
27. 'Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star' conferred on ........
1) Ajith Doval 2) Arvind Subramaniam 3) G.Satish Reddy 4) S.Ramadorai 5) C.N.R.Rao
28. Who was conferred with the Columbia's highest civilian award Orden de la Democracia Simon Bolivar en el grado de cruz Caballero (Order of the Democracy Simon Bolivar) by Columbia?
1) Jaggi Vasudev 2) Baba Ramdev 3) Ravi Shankar 4) Jayendra Saraswathi 5) Swami Rambhadracharya
29. Ravi Shankar is the founder of .....
1) Isha Foundation 2) Patanjali Foundation 3) Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham 4) Art of Living Foundation
5) Chitrakoot Ashram
30. Man Booker International Prize get cash prize ........... awarded to a living author.
1) $ 90,000 2) £ 30,000 3) £ 60,000 4) £ 70,000 5) £ 20,000
31. For which book Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker International Prize 2008?
1) White Tiger 2) Half Girlfriend 3) The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari 4) Malgudi Days 5) Wings of Fire
32. For which book Kiran Desai won the Man Booker International Prize 2006?
1) The Inheritance of Loss 2) India Wins Freedom 3) The Insider 4) Wings of Fire 5) Without Fear: The Life and Trial of Bhagat Singh
33. Arundhati Roy got Man Booker International Prize 1997 for her book of .....
1) The God of Small Things 2) Coolie 3) The Golden Threshold 4) The Discovery of India 5) My Experiments With Truth
34. Which Indian Author nominated for Man Booker International Prize 2015?
1) Rohinton Mistry 2) U R Ananthamurthy 3) Amitav Ghosh 4) Mahasweta Devi 5) Salman Rushdie
35. Which Hungarian writer on 19 May 2015 won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for 2015?
1) Sandor Weores 2) Peter Esterhazy 3) Laszlo Krasznahorkai 4) Mih·ly Vorosmarty 5)None
36. The highest award in cinema Dadasaheb Phalke Award instituted in..
1) 1991 2) 1947 3) 1983 4) 1992 5) 1969
37. 'Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy' written by ......
1) Ranjan Sodhi 2) V.K. Naryan 3) Jeffrey Boycott 4) Saptarshi Sarkar 5) Dungarpur
1) $ 3 billion 2) $ 3.5 billion 3) $ 1.5 billion 4) $ 1 billion 5) $ 4 billion
2. RBI has extended the date to exchange pre- 2005 bank notes till...
1) August 1st 2015 2) July 31st 2015 3) December 31st 2015 4) January 31st 2016 5) June 30th 2016
3. The Lok Sabha on 13 May cleared the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, 2015. It provides that cases of bouncing of cheques can be filed only in a court in whose jurisdiction the .....
1) drawer bank head office lies. 2) bank branch of the Drawer (person who issues the cheque) lies.
3) all cases transferred to Mumbai, as RBI has headquarters there. 4) payee bank's headquarters lies.
5) bank branch of the payee (person who receives the cheque) lies.
4. Since 2010, which financial regulator has been conducting Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) on a quarterly basis to gauge economic conditions and employment prospects?
1) SEBI 2) NABARD 3) CRISIL 4) RBI 5) IBPS
5. White label operator, Tata Communications Payment Solutions partnered with ......, a payment technology provider, to set up more ATM services in rural unbanked regions.
1) Oxygen 2) Vodafone 3) FINO PayTech 4) FARGO 5) None
6. RBI on 9 June 2015 said Indian corporate eligible to raise ECB are permitted to issue Rupee linked bonds overseas. ECB stands for ........
1) End Commercial Borrowings 2) External Core Borrowings 3) External Commercial Borrowings
4) External Commercial Benefits 5) None
7. Which bank issued first 'contactless' debit and credit cards, enabling its customers to make electronic payments by just waving the cards near the merchant terminal in lieu of dipping or swiping them in India?
1) SBI 2) Andhra Bank 3) ICICI 4) Allahabad Bank 5) Union Bank of India
8. The RBI has relaxed 2-factors authentication norms for contactless cards upto Rs.2,000 using NFC enabled credit and debit cards. Which of the following statements correct?
1) Customers can now make payments up to Rs.2,000 using NFC enabled credit and debit cards without punching the password at any retail outlet. 2) Beyond this transaction limit, the card has to be processed as a contact payment and authentication and PIN will be mandatory. 3) These rules will not be applicable to ATM transactions irrespective of transaction value and Card Not Present transactions (CNP). 4) NFC stands for Near Field Communication 5) All of above
9. Which of the following statement is wrong?
1) 'Tap and pay' refers to the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, enabling users to
make payments by waving or tapping the card near the contactless reader. 2) Customers may look for the 'contactless' logo on the card. 3) Contactless POS are different from Ordinary POS. 4) POS stands for Point of Sales Terminal. 5) None
10. First contactless card in the world issued by ...........
1) Barclays Bank in 2008 2) Standard Chartered Bank in 2009 3) ICICI Bank in 2015 4) UBI in 2014
5) None
11. Which is the first commercial bank in India initiated to have Television Banking (TVB), avail the banking information on TV screens. This enable TV viewers to access information of Bank's services and products, from the convince of their homes?
1) SBI 2) Corporation Bank 3) ICICI 4) Canara Bank 5) Tamilnadu Mercantile Bank Limited
12. New Development Bank (NDB) details given. Locate the wrong option.
1) The decision to set up this bank was taken at the 5th BRICS summit held in Durban, South Africa in 2013. 2) The bank headquarters is in Shanghai, China. 3) It is being seen as an alternative to the existing US-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund. 4) Its total out lay $ 1000 billion.
5) India is active partner in the NDB.
13. First head of the New Development Bank is......
1) K.V. Kamath 2) Jim Yong Kim 3) Christine Lagarde 4) Kaushik Basu 5) Sunil Sabharwal
14. India's first multi social payment app 'Ping Pay' launched by .....
1) HSBC 2) Corporation Bank 3) SBI 4) Axis Bank 5) ICICI
15. From 1 April 2015, the Insurance Australia Group Ltd (IAG) increase its stake in SBI General Insurance (SBIGI) from 26 percent to .......
1) 49% 2) 35% 3) 85% 4) 74% 5) 100%
16. The IAP (Indian Academy of Pediatrics) Health Phone programme details given. The correct option is .......
1) It is a public private partnership initiative that is supported by Vodafone India. 2) The programme use mobile phones in the country to educate over six million girls and women between 13 and 35 years of age. 3) Vodafone will send out approximately 300 million text messages to its subscribers every year to promote the scheme. 4) Three-year campaign is expected to benefit the health of 60 million children in India born by 2025. 5) All of above
17. Union Minister of Women and Child Development is .......
1) Maneka Sanjay Gandhi 2) Najma A. Heptulla 3) Jagat Prakash Nadda 4) Chaudhary Birender Singh 5) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
18. Who was selected for the 28th Moorti Devi Award for the year 2014 for his book Vyomkesh Darvesh?
1) Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade 2) Veerappa Moiley 3) Vishwanath Tripathi 4) Kedarnath Biswas
5) None of above
19. Moorti Devi Award declares by ......
1) K.K. Birla Foundation 2) TATA Foundation 3) Jnanpith Foundation 4) Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation 5) Melinda Gates Foundation
20. Which district was conferred with UN Public Service Award for 'Open Defecation Free' district in country on 26 June 2015?
1) Ernakulam in Kerala 2) Nellore in Andhra Pradesh 3) Nadia in West Bengal 4) Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir 5) Hissar in Haryana
21. UNESCO - Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2015 conferred on ...... a Syrian journalist and advocate. The award set up in 1997.
1) Mazen Darwish 2) Edward Snowden 3) Taslima Nasreen 4) Salman Rushdie 5) None
22. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) was established in ............
1) 1945 2) 1946 3) 1947 4) 1948 5) 1957
23. UNESCO headquarters is in ......
1) Paris 2) New York 3) Montreal 4) Geneva 5) Vienna
24. UNESCO chief .......
1) Irina Bokova 2) Anthony Lake 3) Raymond Benjiman 4) Margert Chan 5) Yukiya Amano
25. The 2015 National Geographic Bee Championship won by ......
1) Tine Valencic 2) Rahul Nagvekar 3) Sathwik Karnik 4) Akhil Rekulapelli 5) Karan Menon
26. UK Author Ali Smith won the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel......
1) How to be Both 2) A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing 3) May We Be Forgiven 4) The Song of Achilles
5) None
27. 'Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star' conferred on ........
1) Ajith Doval 2) Arvind Subramaniam 3) G.Satish Reddy 4) S.Ramadorai 5) C.N.R.Rao
28. Who was conferred with the Columbia's highest civilian award Orden de la Democracia Simon Bolivar en el grado de cruz Caballero (Order of the Democracy Simon Bolivar) by Columbia?
1) Jaggi Vasudev 2) Baba Ramdev 3) Ravi Shankar 4) Jayendra Saraswathi 5) Swami Rambhadracharya
29. Ravi Shankar is the founder of .....
1) Isha Foundation 2) Patanjali Foundation 3) Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham 4) Art of Living Foundation
5) Chitrakoot Ashram
30. Man Booker International Prize get cash prize ........... awarded to a living author.
1) $ 90,000 2) £ 30,000 3) £ 60,000 4) £ 70,000 5) £ 20,000
31. For which book Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker International Prize 2008?
1) White Tiger 2) Half Girlfriend 3) The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari 4) Malgudi Days 5) Wings of Fire
32. For which book Kiran Desai won the Man Booker International Prize 2006?
1) The Inheritance of Loss 2) India Wins Freedom 3) The Insider 4) Wings of Fire 5) Without Fear: The Life and Trial of Bhagat Singh
33. Arundhati Roy got Man Booker International Prize 1997 for her book of .....
1) The God of Small Things 2) Coolie 3) The Golden Threshold 4) The Discovery of India 5) My Experiments With Truth
34. Which Indian Author nominated for Man Booker International Prize 2015?
1) Rohinton Mistry 2) U R Ananthamurthy 3) Amitav Ghosh 4) Mahasweta Devi 5) Salman Rushdie
35. Which Hungarian writer on 19 May 2015 won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for 2015?
1) Sandor Weores 2) Peter Esterhazy 3) Laszlo Krasznahorkai 4) Mih·ly Vorosmarty 5)None
36. The highest award in cinema Dadasaheb Phalke Award instituted in..
1) 1991 2) 1947 3) 1983 4) 1992 5) 1969
37. 'Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy' written by ......
1) Ranjan Sodhi 2) V.K. Naryan 3) Jeffrey Boycott 4) Saptarshi Sarkar 5) Dungarpur
38.
A.R. Antulay died in December 2014. He was the former Chief Minister of?
1) Karnataka 2) Goa 3) Odisha 4) Bihar 5) Maharashtra
39. The United Nations General Assembly declared which of the following days as the World Soil Day?
1) June 5 2) July 5 3) November 5 4) October 5 ) December 5
40. Jarbom Gamlin died on 2014 November 30. He was the former Chief Minister of?
1) Sikkim 2) Nagaland 3) Arunachal Pradesh 4) Tripura 5) Manipur
ANSWERS:
1-1, 2-3, 3-5, 4-4, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3, 8-5, 9-3, 10-1, 11-3, 12-4, 13-1, 14-4, 15-1, 16-5, 17-1, 18-3, 19-3, 20-3, 21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-1, 25-5, 26-1, 27-5, 28-3, 29-4, 30-3, 31-1, 32-1,33-1, 34-3, 35-3,36-5, 37-4, 38- 5, 39- 5, 40- 3
1) Karnataka 2) Goa 3) Odisha 4) Bihar 5) Maharashtra
39. The United Nations General Assembly declared which of the following days as the World Soil Day?
1) June 5 2) July 5 3) November 5 4) October 5 ) December 5
40. Jarbom Gamlin died on 2014 November 30. He was the former Chief Minister of?
1) Sikkim 2) Nagaland 3) Arunachal Pradesh 4) Tripura 5) Manipur
ANSWERS:
1-1, 2-3, 3-5, 4-4, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3, 8-5, 9-3, 10-1, 11-3, 12-4, 13-1, 14-4, 15-1, 16-5, 17-1, 18-3, 19-3, 20-3, 21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-1, 25-5, 26-1, 27-5, 28-3, 29-4, 30-3, 31-1, 32-1,33-1, 34-3, 35-3,36-5, 37-4, 38- 5, 39- 5, 40- 3
